What is the difference between prayer and aspiration? I have written this somewhere. There are several kinds of prayers. There is the purely mechanical, material prayer, with words which have been learnt and are mechanically repeated. That does not signify anything much. And that has usually only one single result, that of quietening the person who prays, for if a prayer is repeated several times, the words end up by making you calm. *There is a prayer which is a spontaneous formula for expressing something precise which one wants to ask for: one prays for this thing or that, one prays for one thing or another;

I have the deepest respect for Indian languages and continue to study Sanskrit when I have time. The Sanskrit ought to be the national language of India. Blessings. 19 April 1971 Page – 383 , Words of The Mother , volume 13 , CWMCE

Messages for Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, who visited the Ashram Let India work for the future and set the example. Thus she will recover her true place in the world. Since long it was the habit to govern through division and opposition. The time has come to govern through union, mutual understanding and collaboration. To choose a collaborator, the value of the man is more important than the party to which he belongs. The greatness of a country does not depend on the victory of a party but on the union of all the parties. 6 October 1969

Modesty Who is this coming to the door of this Japanese house? It is the flower-artist, the man who is skilled in arranging flowers. The master of the house brings a tray with some flowers, a pair of scissors, a knife, a little saw, and a beautiful vase. “Sir,” he says, “I cannot make a bouquet beautiful enough for such a beautiful vase.” “I am sure you can,” replies the master politely as he leaves the room. Left alone, the artist sets to work, cutting, snipping, twisting and tying until a beautiful bunch of flowers fills the vase – a delight to the eyes. The master and his friends ent

The Soul (the Psychic) The soul is that which comes out of the Divine without ever leaving Him and goes back to Him without ever ceasing from manifestation. The soul is the Divine made individual without ceasing to be divine. In the soul the individual and the Divine are eternally one. Thus to find one’s soul is to be united with the Divine. It can therefore be said that the role of the soul is to make of man a true being. Theories differ according to schools and sects, and each one puts forth excellent reasons to support what it asserts. There is certainly truth in whatever one a

SYMBOL OF AUROVILLE *The dot at the centre represents Unity, the Supreme; the inner circle represents the creation, the conception of the City; the petals represent the power of expression, realisation.§* 16 August 1971page 199 , Word of The Mother , vol - 13 Page – 218, vol -13, Words of The Mother

Has X spoken to you about some influence of Saturn he has found in my horoscope? I forgot to ask you about it on my birthday. Yes, he spoke to me about it. But you must know that yoga frees us from subjection to the horoscope; the horoscope expresses the position one has in relation with the material world, but by the sadhana we get free from the slavery to that world. 14 September 1936 page 206 , Some Answers from The Mother , volume 16 , CWMCE

COLOURS Can one tell when the colour yellow indicates the mind and when it indicates light? Greenish yellow is mental. Orange yellow is the symbol of light. page 41, Words of The Mother, vol -15 , CWMCE The diamond is the symbol of pure spiritual light. No hostile force can cross it. If you put that light on a hostile force, he simply melts away. But the diamond light cannot be used indiscriminately in all cases, because human beings who shelter these adverse forces get very dangerously affected. Of course I am not speaking of material diamonds. page 44 , Words of The Mother, vol -15 - CWMCE

Read Sri Aurobindo and follow his discipline. Savitri the supreme revelation of Sri Aurobindo's vision (About Savitri) *1) The daily record of the spiritual experiences of the individual who has written. * *2) A complete system of yoga which can serve as a guide for those who want to follow the integral sadhana. * *3) The yoga of the Earth in its ascension towards the Divine. * *4) The experiences of the Divine Mother in her effort to adapt herself to the body she has taken and the ignorance and the falsity of the earth upon which she has incarnated. * /(Message for “Meditations on Savitri”, an exhibition of paintings by an Ashram artist, d